Association Of Abo Blood Group With Myopia : Myopia With Abo Blood Group:Any association?

ISBN-13: 9783659293009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 64 str.

Mazura Bahari; Mohd Hairi A.Hamid

Opis

Myopia or nearsightedness was a global public health issue. It is a refractive error, which means that the eye does not refract the light correctly causing the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eyes. It causes myopic individuals have difficulties to see remote object, but can see the near subject obviously. Many factors are associated with higher incidence of myopia. Some of these factors are controllable such diet, habits, and physical activities while some others are uncontrollable such as age, genetic, family history and vision status. An association between ABO blood groups and myopia has been described. The purpose of this study is to find out the association between myopia and ABO blood groups.

O autorze

Mazura Bahari is Lecturer,Department of Medical Laboratory Technology,Faculty of Health Sciences MARA University of Technology Puncak Alam Campus, Selangor, Malaysia.Previously was Medical Technologist at National Blood Center Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 8 years experiences in Blood Banking.Currently as a lecturer in Transfusion Medicine field.